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Canada Post announces subjects for 2025 stamp program

By David Hartwig
Canada Post announced details of its
2025 stamp program in a Jan. 16 press release.
The 2025 Canadian stamp program
“includes influential figures and key milestones that have shaped Canadian
history and culture,” the press release said.
Canada Post will continue the
long-running Black History Month series with an issue commemorating Marie
Joseph Angelique, a Portuguese-born slave who allegedly set fire to her owner’s
house in 1734.
The annual Flower series will return
with designs showing peonies, according to the press release.
A 2025 stamp issue will honor former
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who was born March 20, 1939, and died Feb. 29,
2024. Many of the Canada Post stamps commemorating former prime ministers, such
as the 2021 stamp commemorating John Turner (Scott 3292), have been issued on
the birth anniversary of the prime minister.
A 2025 graphic novelists issue will
continue a series that began in May 2024 when Canada Post issued four graphic
novelists stamps. In 2025 Canada Post will also continue its tradition of
showing wildlife on stamps with an issue featuring fungi.
Canada will commemorate the “places
and events that set the stage for the evolution of 2SLGBTQIA+ [Two-Spirit,
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and/or Questioning, Intersex,
Asexual, Plus] rights,” Canada Post said, with the issue date coming ahead of
what the Canadian government calls Pride Season, a term referring to events
taking place over the summer.
The Indigenous Leaders series, which
Canada Post began in 2022, will continue in 2025. The press release did not
provide an issue date, but all previous stamps in the series have been issued
June 21, which is National Indigenous People Day in Canada.
The 2025 program will see another
fundraising stamp issued for the Canada Post Community Foundation, which
supports children and youth. Canada Post started this annual semipostal series
in 2012.
In 2025 Canada Post will again issue
stamps to commemorate the Sept. 30 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation,
which recognizes those who never returned from Indian residential schools,
those who survived, and the families and communities involved.
Another issue announced in the Jan.
16 press release will bring attention to “the dark history of civilian
internment in Canada.”
An issue for Remembrance Day (Nov.
11) “honours Canadian war heroes who broke down barriers to serve their
country,” Canada Post said.
Canada Post also confirmed special
stamps to celebrate the holidays of Eid, Diwali, Hanukkah and Christmas.
“Canada Post takes pride in telling
Canada’s stories through its iconic national stamp program,” the press release
said, adding that members of the committee responsible for recommending
subjects to the annual stamp program “rely on thoughtful input from groups and
individuals to choose subjects that capture the country’s rich history and
culture and reflect the shared values of Canadians.”
The press release said cultural icons and other topics will be featured on stamps still to be announced. The program is tentative and subject to change.
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